by J. T. Edson
xx A later and more amicable encounter between Dustine Edward Marsden ‘Dusty’ Fog and Cyrus ‘Cy’ Bollinger is described in: Part One, ‘The Schoolteacher’, THE HARD RIDERS and, revised in the light of information supplied to us by Alvin Dustine ‘Cap’ Fog, its ‘expansion’, MASTER OF TRIGGERNOMETRY.
xxi For information regarding Tommy Okasi, see: Footnotes 24, 25, APPENDIX TWO.
xxii A professional ‘bronc buster’ in Texas considered a horse to be sufficiently broken for use after he had ‘saddled’, ridden, it three times. All further training was the responsibility of the cowhand into whose possession it came.
xxiii ‘Striker’: colloquial name in the United States’ Army for an officer’s servant, the British equivalent being, ‘batman’.
xxiv ‘Great Game’: the British term at that period for any form of spying or counter-espionage activity.
xxv Due to having been misled by the sources from which we prepared the manuscript for the volume of which this narrative is an 'expansion', we made it appear two other senior officers of the Army of the Confederate States were present at the interview. A more detailed account of what was said, not necessarily by the person to whom it was previously credited, also regarding the two unsuccessful attempts on the life of Captain Dustine Edward Marsden ‘Dusty’ Fog and how he subsequently gave his evidence at the court martial is recorded in: Part One, ‘The Futility Of War’, THE FASTEST GUN IN TEXAS.
xxvi Meetings which Logan Huntspill and Jabez Wexler had with Captain Dustine Edward Marsden ‘Dusty’ Fog are recorded in: Part One, ‘The Scout’, UNDER THE STARS AND BARS and KILL DUSTY FOG!
xxvii Suggestions of the way in which those Union prisoner of war camps under the command of Brigadier General Lawrence Smethurst were run can be found in: TO ARMS! TO ARMS! IN DIXIE! and SET A-FOOT. How he met his end is told in: THE HOODED RIDERS.
xxviii Although we have found no confirmation, based upon the identity of the ‘unsatisfactory’ employer, we suspect Thaddeus Barnes had been placed in the Confederate States’ Secret Service by its counterpart in Great Britain. This may have been done with the sanction of the British Government. Various other adverse activities led to the ‘Alabama’ Arbitration Tribunal after the War, see Footnote 8, APPENDIX THREE. Despite the alleged parting of their ways, in the as yet unpublished memoirs of Major General Sir Patrick Reeder, K. C. B., V. C., M. C. and Bar, ON REMITTANCE, there are several references to a Thaddeus Barnes being valet to his father long after 1861 and mentions of them having played the ‘Great Game’ together during their association.
xxix The researches of fictionist-genealogist Philip José Farmer—author of amongst numerous other works, TARZAN ALIVE, The Definitive Biography Of Lord Greystoke, and DOC SAVAGE, His Apocalytpic Life—have established that Belle Boyd was the grand-aunt of Jane, Lady Greystoke, nee Porter, whose history is recorded in the TARZAN OF THE APES series of biographies by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
xxx While an epee de combat can be used for cutting, it is mainly intended for thrusting with the point when on foot. A saber is primarily designed for slashing with the edge from the back of a horse.
xxxi Some details of the career of Rose Greenhow are given in: KILL DUSTY FOG!
xxxii Told in: THE COLT AND THE SABRE and THE REBEL SPY.
xxxiii Told in: THE BLOODY BORDER.
xxxiv Told in: BACK TO THE BLOODY BORDER.
xxxv The meeting between Generals Robert E. Lee for the Confederate States and General Ulysses Simpson Grant took place on April 9, 1865, practically ending the War Between the States; although the last battle, ironically won by the South, occurred at Palmitto Hill, about fifteen miles east of Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, on May 13, 1865.
xxxvi Told in: THE HOODED RIDERS.
xxxvii Further information regarding Martha ‘Calamity Jane’ Canary is given in the Calamity Jane series.
xxxviii We are frequently asked why it is the ‘Belle Starr’ we describe differs so drastically from the photographs which appear in various books. The researches of Philip José Farmer, q.v., with whom we consulted, have established that the person we describe is not the same as another, equally famous, bearer of the name. However, Andrew Mark ‘Big Andy’ Counter—who kindly supplies us with details of her career, taken from the unpublished memoirs of his paternal great-grandfather, Mark, has instructed Mr. Farmer and ourselves to keep her true identity a secret and this we intend to do. How her association with Mark commenced, progressed and was ended is told in: Part One, ‘The Bounty On Belle Starr’s Scalp’, TROUBLED RANGE; its ‘expansion', CALAMITY, MARK AND BELLE; RANGELAND HERCULES; THE BAD BUNCH; Part Two, ‘We Hang Horse Thieves High’, J. T.’S HUNDREDTH, THE GENTLE GIANT; Part Four, ‘A Lady Known As Belle’, THE HARD RIDERS and GUNS IN THE NIGHT. Belle also makes 'guest’ appearances in: HELL IN THE PALO DURO; GO BACK TO HELL; THE QUEST FOR BOWIE’S BLADE, Part Six, the Calamity Jane series, ‘Mrs. Wild Bill’, J. T.’S LADIES and WACO’S BADGE.
xxxix Told in: THE BAD BUNCH.
xl Told in: TO ARMS! TO ARMS! IN DIXIE! and THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN.
xli Told in: SET A-FOOT.
xlii The researches of Philip José Farmer, q.v., have established that Captain—later Major General, Sir, K. C. B., V. C., D. S. O., M. C. and Bar—Patrick Reeder, Rifle Brigade, seconded to British Military Intelligence, was the uncle of the celebrated detective, Mr. J. G. Reeder, whose biography is recorded in: ROOM 13, THE MIND OF MR. J. G. REEDER, RED ACES, MR. J. G. REEDER RETURNS and TERROR KEEP by Edgar Wallace, and whose organization plays a prominent part in the events described in: ‘CAP’ FOG, TEXAS RANGER, MEET MR. J. G. REEDER.
xliii The researches of Philip José Farmer, q.v., have established that the grandson of Lieutenant Edward Ballinger, Frank, held a similar rank in the Chicago Police Department at a later date and his exploits formed the basis of the 1957 television series, M SQUAD, starring Lee Marvin.
xliv Told in: THE REMITTANCE KID and THE WHIP AND THE WAR LANCE.
xlv Told in: THE QUEST FOR BOWIE’S BLADE.
xlvi Told in: Part Eight, ‘Affair Of Honor’, J. T.’S HUNDREDTH.
xlvii The researches of Philip José Farmer have established that the eldest daughter in each successive generation retained the name, 'Amelia Penelope Diana Benkinsop’ no matter whom the father might be. ‘Benkers’ also makes a ‘guest’ appearance in: BEGUINAGE IS DEAD! The current Miss A. P. D. Benkinsop, owner of Benkinsop’s Academy for The Daughters of Gentle Folk, is not only a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Science (Oxon), but was awarded the George Cross—the highest award for valor given to civilians—for her service with British Intelligence’s little known ‘Group Thirteen’ during World War II. She was also appointed a Honorary Member of the Holloway Prison Old Girls’ Association, having made a period of voluntary confinement there while obtaining evidence which helped break up a combined Nazi and Communist spy ring early in 1940, before Russia went to war against its former ally, Germany. Some details of her career are given in: BLONDE GENIUS and Part One, Amanda ‘the School Swot’ Tweedle in ‘Fifteen the Hard Way’, J. T.’S LADIES.
xlviii Told in: Part Five, Belle ‘the Rebel Spy’ Boyd in ‘The Butcher’s Fiery End’, J. T.’S LADIES.
xlix Details of some of the career of Dustine Edward Marsden ‘Dusty’ Fog prior to his enrolment are given in: Part Five, the Civil War series, ‘A Time For Improvisation, Mr. Blaze', J. T.'S HUNDREDTH.
l Told in: YOU’RE IN COMMAND NOW, MR. FOG.
li The first ‘commandos’ were bands of South African irregular troops fighting the British Army very successfully in the Boer War.
lii Told in: THE BIG GUN, UNDER THE STARS AND BARS and KILL DUSTY FOG!
liii Told in: THE DEVIL GUN.
liv Told in: THE COLT AND THE SABER and THE REBEL SPY.
lv Told in: Part Three, ‘The Paint’, THE FASTEST GUN IN TEXAS. Further details of the career of General Jackson Baines ‘Ole Devil’ Hardin, C. S. A., can be found in the Ole Devil Hardin series; Part Four
, ‘Mr. Colt’s Revolving Cylinder Pistol’, J. T.’S HUNDREDTH—covering his early life—the Civil War and Floating Outfit series and his death is reported in: DOC LEROY, M. D. The General’s sobriquet came partly as a result of his deliberately enhancing the Mephistophelian aspects of his face when he was younger and because his contemporaries claimed he was a ‘lil ole devil for a fight’.
lvi Told in: THE YSABEL KID.
lvii ‘Floating outfit’: four to six cowhands employed on a large ranch to work the more distant regions of the property. Taking food in a chuck wagon, or ‘greasy sack’ on the back of a mule, they would be away from the ranch house for long periods and so were the pick of the crew. Because of General Hardin’s prominence in the affairs of Texas, the floating outfit of the OD Connected ranch were frequently dispatched to assist such of his friends who found themselves in serious difficulties or endangered.
lviii Details of the careers and special qualifications of Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid can be found in their respective ‘Parts’ of J. T.’S HUNDREDTH, the other volumes of the Floating Outfit and, in the latter’s case Civil War series.
lixTold in: .44 CALIBER MAN and A HORSE CALLED MOGOLLON.
lx The military rank, ‘Colonel’ granted to Charles Goodnight was honorary and out of respect for his abilities as a fighting man and leader. As is recorded in the Alvin Dustine ‘Cap’ Fog series, Dusty Fog was given a similar honor later in his life.
lxi Told in: GOODNIGHT’S DREAM and FROM HIDE AND HORN.
lxii Told in: SET TEXAS BACK ON HER FEET.
lxiii Told in: TRAIL BOSS.
lxiv Told in: THE MAN FROM TEXAS.
lxv Told in: QUIET TOWN, THE MAKING OF A LAWMAN, THE TROUBLE BUSTERS, THE GENTLE GIANT, THE SMALL TEXAN and THE TOWN TAMERS.
lxvi Told in: GUN WIZARD.
lxvii The members of the Hardin, Fog and Blaze clan with whom we have consulted decline to say why Lady Winifred Amelia ‘Freddie Woods’ Besgrove-Woodstole decided to leave England and live under an assumed name in the United States. Nor was a present member of the Besgrove-Woodstole family, the Right Hon. Brenda, married to Sheriff Jack Tragg, any more inclined to be informative; see, THE LAWMEN OF ROCKABYE COUNTY.
lxviii One example of Dusty exhibiting his exceptional muscular physique and strength is given in the ‘expansion’ of Part One, ‘The Schoolteacher’, THE HARD RIDERS; MASTER OF TRIGGERNOMETRY.
lxix The ambidextrous prowess was in part hereditary. It was possessed and exploited just as effectively by Freddie and Dusty’s grandson, Alvin Dustin ‘Cap’ Fog, q.v. ‘Cap’ also inherited the physique of a Hercules in miniature and these traits helped him to become, in addition to arguably the greatest combat pistol handler of his generation, the youngest man ever to hold rank of Captain in the Texas Rangers, hence his sobriquet. Some authorities award the combat pistol honor to Ed McGiven, see FAST AND FANCY REVOLVER SHOOTING a partly autobiographical work and definitive treatise on the subject.
lxx Although the military sometimes claimed derisively it was harder to kill a soldier than a sailor, the weight factor of the respective weapons caused the United States’ Navy to adopt a revolver of .36 caliber and the Army employed the heavier .44. The weapon would be carried on a seaman’s belt and not—handguns having originally been developed for use by cavalry—upon the person or saddle of a man who would be doing much of his fighting and travelling on the back of a horse. Therefore, by tradition, .44 became classified as the ‘Army’ caliber and .36 the ‘Navy’.
lxxi Information regarding the Colt Model P ‘Single Action Army’ revolver is given in those volumes of the Floating Outfit series which follow THE PEACEMAKERS on the chronological list.
lxxii ‘Tommy Okasi’ is an Americanized corruption of the name given by the man in question when he was rescued from a derelict vessel in the China Sea by a ship under the command of General Hardin’s father. Due to the families involved, who have living descendants holding positions of importance, the Hardin-Fog-Blaze clan consider it inadvisable even at this late date to disclose why Tommy had to leave his native land.
lxxiii ‘Samurai’: a member of the Japanese nobility’s elite warrior class who usually served as retainers for the Daimyos, the hereditary feudal barons. A masterless samurai who became a mercenary was known as a ronin. From the mid-1870s, increased contact with the Western Hemisphere brought an ever-growing realization that the retention of a hereditary and privileged warrior class was not compatible with the formation of a modern industrialized society. Various edicts issued by the Emperor between 1873 and ’76 abolished the special rights of the samurai and, although some of their traditions, concepts and military skills were retained, they ceased to exist in their original form. How well later generations absorbed the martial arts of the samurai culture is proved by Alvin Dustine ‘Cap’ Fog having received instruction similar to that given to his paternal grandfather from a kinsman of Tommy Okasi who lived in the United States from 1910.
lxxiv The members of the Hardin-Fog-Blaze clan with whom we have been in contact cannot, or will not, make any statement upon the exact relationship between Elizabeth ‘Betty’ and General Hardin. She appears in: Part Five, ‘A Time For Improvisation, Mr. Blaze’, J. T.’S HUNDREDTH; Part Four, ‘It’s Our Turn to Improvise, Miss Blaze’, J. T.’S LADIES; KILL DUSTY FOG!; THE BAD BUNCH; McGRAW’S INHERITANCE; Part Two, ‘The Quartet’, THE HALF BREED; MASTER OF TRIGGERNOMETRY, THE RIO HONDO WAR and GUNSMOKE THUNDER.
lxxv Although at the period in which the narrative of THE REMITTANCE KID and THE WHIP AND THE WAR LANCE is set, Captain Patrick Reeder, q.v., had not yet visited Japan, he eventually did so and acquired a thorough knowledge of the samurai martial arts. The techniques he is described employing in the above named volumes were either some form of pentjak-silat system of unarmed combat practiced in the East Indies, or what has become known as kung fu and originated in China.
